Job Description
Job Title: Facilities Manager
Work Location: Portland, OR
Duration: Full-Time
Required Qualifications: Previous Data Center Management & Market Scaling Experience Strongly Preferred
Job Description & Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of facility technicians and support staff, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure conformance with all change control development, approvals, and execution.
- Assist in the hiring, training, and management of operations personnel on site.
- Leads the company culture via mentoring of operations personnel in career and personal development.
- Oversee all aspects of facility operations to ensure the facility operates efficiently and effectively. Support the scheduling, development and execution for all preventive maintenance, contracted maintenance, and general maintenance.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and safety protocols. Conduct regular safety inspections and manage emergency response procedures.
- Review and approve change requests, MOPs, SOPS, and EOPs.
- Maintain accurate records of facility operations, maintenance activities, and customer interactions. Provide regular reports to senior management on facility performance metrics.
- Continuous evaluation of all building systems to ensure efficient operations.
- Enforce safe work responsibilities and safety procedures capabilities of critical facilities employees and contractors.
- Evaluate, assign, and monitor the maintenance, operations, and incident handling of critical facilities employees and contractors.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, addressing any concerns or issues promptly and maintaining strong relationships to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Partner with internal departments to support sales tours, customer fit outs, customer events, sustainability & safety initiatives, capital projects and audits.
- Assist in managing OPEX and CAPEX budget for the facility.
- First responder in site escalation to emergency situations (i.e., fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns.
- Ensure compliance with applicable codes, requisitions, government agencies and directives as relates to building operations.
- Primary technical resource for building specifics in all facility & operational facets. Thorough understanding of deployed company product & infrastructure.
- Key stakeholder in evaluating company's processes to ensure continuous improvement and innovation.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum five years of increased responsibility and oversight of building systems and critical facilities equipment.
- Professional licenses are strongly preferred (electrical and mechanical licenses)
- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex project documents, AutoCAD, Visio, and PDF documents.
- Ability to project manage effectively.
- Ability to develop installation standards and project tracking/management documents.
- Ability to effectively respond, verbally or written, to sensitive issues, complex inquiries, or complaints.
- Requires a high level of commitment to customer service, whether co-workers or clients.
- Requires knowledge of all applicable rules, laws, codes, regulations, and ordinances in performing data/communications and MEP projects.
- Ability to estimate cost of client installations and other assigned projects. Cost tracking for projects.
- Knowledge of purchase order requests process and invoice tracking.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems involving several options with limited information.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form and to work independently.
- Demonstrate ability to work well under pressure with a proactive approach to unusual occurrences.
- Requires good organizational skills, attention to detail and an openness to new ideas and procedures.
- MSOffice applications. i.e., Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Occasional travel may be required for training and/or to support other business-related requests.
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